First bin, looking for advice

I am currently making a bedding for my first worm box. I’ve read many guides and contradictory information confuses me a little. My bin is a 20 gal with holes in the bottom and is in another bin without holes to catch the lechetate. I plan on getting european nightcrawler since I want to use them as fish bait eventually.

Here’s the list of the materials used for the bedding: - 300 shredded printer sheets - all the cardboard in my house (3-4 amazon boxes) - recycled terrarium that dried up and died containing 2 bricks of coco, a handful of rinced and crushed charcoal, a little bit of sphagnum moss, oak and maple leaves and sticks. All of this fills the bin up to 3/4 of only brown materials. - I won’t have worms before next week, but I’ll feed them mainly coffee grounds, sweet potatoes and banana peel.

So here’s the questions: - is this too much bedding to start a bin? - some guides says too much brown isn’t good, but never say why. So is it really bad? - the sticks are pretty big and won’t degrade fast. Are they still useful as mold/fungus host or should I remove them? - I don’t have much eggshells on hand right now. Can I crush a cuttlefish bone and use this as grit?

Thanks in advance for any useful information.

I am currently making a bedding for my first worm box. I’ve read many guides and contradictory information confuses me a little. My bin is a 20 gal with holes in the bottom and is in another bin without holes to catch the lechetate. I plan on getting european nightcrawler since I want to use them as fish bait eventually.

Here’s the list of the materials used for the bedding: - 300 shredded printer sheets - all the cardboard in my house (3-4 amazon boxes) - recycled terrarium that dried up and died containing 2 bricks of coco, a handful of rinced and crushed charcoal, a little bit of sphagnum moss, oak and maple leaves and sticks. All of this fills the bin up to 3/4 of only brown materials. - I won’t have worms before next week, but I’ll feed them mainly coffee grounds, sweet potatoes and banana peel.

So here’s the questions: - is this too much bedding to start a bin? - some guides says too much brown isn’t good, but never say why. So is it really bad? - the sticks are pretty big and won’t degrade fast. Are they still useful as mold/fungus host or should I remove them? - I don’t have much eggshells on hand right now. Can I crush a cuttlefish bone and use this as grit?

Thanks in advance for any useful information.